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Object of the week: The milk churns that rewrote film history
How much history is it possible to hide inside a milk churn?
By Rebecca Vick
Object of the week: The milk churns that rewrote film history
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Object of the week: What’s a Kalamazoo?
By Jez Stewart
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The letter that made Audrey Hepburn a star
By Nathalie Morris
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Object of the week: production design for the Hindi classic Pakeezah by British sketch artist Ivor Beddoes
By Nathalie Morris
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The unique teaser posters for Ealing’s post-war émigré drama Frieda
By Nathalie Morris
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Behind-the-scenes photos of documentary pioneer Humphrey Jennings filming alt-history drama The Silent Village
By Nathalie Morris
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives: a costume drawing for the 1970s historical epic
By Nathalie Morris
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The 3D printer that helps us recreate vintage film equipment
By Ian Shand
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The annotated shooting script for The Third Man, minus the ‘cuckoo clock’ speech
By Nathalie Morris
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The shooting script for Sally Potter’s Orlando
By Nathalie Morris
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Camels attending a cinema in Sutton in 1962
By Kay Eldridge and Alex Prideaux
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Alan Whicker’s cue cards for interviewing Sean Connery on You Only Live Twice
By Nathalie Morris
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The painted ‘flying ballet’ design for Superman
By Claire Smith
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Object of the week: Harold Brown’s handmade film printer, the Mark IV
By Alex Prideaux
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Object of the week: 96-year-old footage of Alfred Hitchcock in a test take for his thriller Blackmail
By Bryony Dixon
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Object of the week: The colourful lists from Peter Wollen’s notebook
By Nathalie Morris
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Object of the week: promotional still for the lost silent romcom Swim Girl, Swim
By Eva Norton
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Object of the week: The Red Shoes wallpaper by the film’s designer Hein Heckroth
By Nathalie Morris